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GB 249 T-GED/22/1 · Series · 17th century - 1927

Illustrations, maps, plans and photographs of individual towns, cities, regions, etc. in France (with the exclusion of Paris).

This series is part of Patrick Geddes’ large collection of maps, plans, photographs, prints and drawings of countries and regions around the world. Much of this collection was part of Geddes' Cities and Town Planning Exhibition.

Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932, Knight, biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner
Rare Books collection
GB 249 SC Rare · Collection · 1601-2011

Collection of books printed before 1840 transferred from main library stock. Also includes later special material such as first editions, limited editions, vulnerable plates and fine bindings.

University of Strathclyde | Library
Laing collection
GB 249 SC Laing · Collection · 1627-1883

Collection of mathematics texts dating from the 17th to the 19th centuries.

Laing, Alexander, d. 1882, mathematician
Bay de Tode los Santos
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1642 · Item · [after 1627]
Part of Mexico

't'Neemen van de Suyker Prysen in de Bay de Tode los Santos Anno 1627.'

Anon.

'Fol: 23' from an unidentified publication.

'[1690 Bresel]' endorsed on the reverse in manuscript in pencil in bottom right corner.

Africa
GB 249 T-GED/22/1 · Series · [after 1630] - 1912; no date

Maps of Africa.

This series is part of Patrick Geddes’ large collection of maps, plans, photographs, prints and drawings of countries and regions around the world. Much of this collection was part of Geddes' Cities and Town Planning Exhibition.

Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932, Knight, biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner
Africa
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/2 · Item · [after 1630]
Part of Africa

'Africae nova descriptio'
'Auct: Guiljelmo Blaeuw.'

Scale unspecified.

'Blaeu c. 1660' endorsed on reverse in manuscript in pencil.
'4' endorsed on reverse in manuscript in ink.
'Africa' endorsed on reverse in manuscript in ink.

Guiljelmo Blaeu published the first edition of this map in 1630, followed by several further editions (Koeman, C., 'Atlantes Neerlandici. Bibliography of terrestrial, maritime and celestial Atlases and Pilot Books published in the Netherlands up to 1880' (Amsterdam, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1969-71) 1, p. 74).

Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638, cartographer, atlas maker and publisher
Europe: Regional Maps
GB 249 T-GED/22/1 · Series · c. 1635 - after 1914

Regional maps of Europe.

This series is part of Patrick Geddes’ large collection of maps, plans, photographs, prints and drawings of countries and regions around the world. Much of this collection was part of Geddes' Cities and Town Planning Exhibition.

Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932, Knight, biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/760 · Item · c. 1635 or later
Part of Europe: Regional Maps

'Danubius, Fluvius Europae Maximus, A Fontibus Ad Ostia, Cum omnibus Fluminibus, ab utroque latere, in ilium defluentibus.'

Anon.

Scale: 7 cm to 20 German miles

[Title cartouche with allegories of Christian and Muslim sides of the Danube, embellishment with water deities and river gods in bottom left corner.]

[Probably from William Blaeu, 'Novus Atlas [... ]' (Amsterdam: Guiljelmo Blaue, 1635 and later) (Koeman, 1, p. 102, BI9, No. 219)]

GB 249 T-GED/22/1 · Series · 1640 - 1925

Illustrations, posters, maps, plans, photographs, postcards and diagrams of individual towns, cities and regions in England.

This series is part of Patrick Geddes’ large collection of maps, plans, photographs, prints and drawings of countries and regions around the world. Much of this collection was part of Geddes' Cities and Town Planning Exhibition.

Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932, Knight, biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner
Deal and Sandwich
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/185 · Item · 1640
Part of British Isles: England: Individual Towns, Cities, Regions etc.

View of the Spanish, Dutch and English Fleets off Deal, comprising two prints mounted on individual backings, mounted together on one backing.

'Vera Et Exacta Delineato Classium Hispanicae, Anglicae, et Holladicae, prout in Freto Brittanico iuxta Dealam Castrum et Sandvicum in primo congressu, ante prelium se ostenderunt, Anno 1640'
'Do. Cornelio Boll. Ant[u. si] Navium Pictori celeberrimo, huiq[ue] rei simul spectatori [s]uo Amititiae ergo, Wencellaus Hollar Bonem, delineator, D.D.D.'
'W. Hollar fecit'
'Deal v [and] Sandwich' endorsed in manuscript in ink at bottom margin.

[Pennington, 'A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-77' (Cambridge: University Press, 1982), No. 548]